A brief review from a while back of James Hughes’ book Citizen Cyborg. The copy I was reading has been recalled this week by the university library before I finished it but I agree with the reviewer that it’s a very readable book and takes a different tack from the typical libertarian transhumanist approach. In common with the latter approach though, it still holds to the view that human rationality is the key to essential human being. It makes some good observations about how normally diametrically opposed political factions often form alliances when finding themselves at similar positions on a biopolitical spectrum, and comments worth thinking about for how society should manage technological developments to avoid things like “digital divides“.

See: Boing Boing: Humanist transhumanism: Citizen Cyborg.